Of course it didn't occur to me to try a upgrade. *head-slap*I'd say if you haven't noticed crashing within a short time using flash, you might be immune. I'll upgrade today if I can find the time and keep you guys/girls posted.

Yep! You guys were right. After updating to the latest Flash, the freezing seems resolved. I haven't had the time to test it a bunch, but it's certain I would have experienced a freeze by now with the older Flash.

I wasn't going to upgrade my wife's FF install since she's a non-forgiving, easily frustrated "Linux user". But I will now that I know what the deal appears to be.

I haven't had much time to do some serious testing, but I went to youtube to view some tutorials that I like watching. Made it to the second one and Firefox 3 froze. I'm using the Flash 9.0 r124 I was bragging about the other day. But at least the freezes are fewer.

I'm also using the flashblock add-on. Sometimes what happens is the video won't play. Just remains white.But a refresh usually fixes it. So maybe the use of flashblock is another factor.I guess they still have some bugs to iron out.

I've had quite a few more freeze ups with flash over the last month. It seems I can duplicate it fairly dependably by closing a firefox tab, or window before the flash completes it's play. I've noticed most while browsing youtube.

Yes, 3.0.1 is out and yes, it fixes problems. In addition Vector didn't package the language packs and the ones in the repository for 2.x aren't compatible with this package.

I'm not going to move this package from testing --> patches because it's somewhat problematic at this point. I actually think this package needs to be pulled. If someone has the time/patience to package the newer version and the language packs It would be much appreciated.

Quite correct. Firefox 3.0.1 is packaged for Vector Linux 6.0 but not for 5.9. This thread refers to the 5.9 package only.

Vector and I have been working on cleaning up our respositories. There are a handful of packages that can't go into patches or extra because of remaining issues. This is one of them. The version of Firefox in our 5.9 repos now is old and has known security vulnerabilities. It needs to be replaced. Folks running 6.0 Alpha 2 like you have the latest and greatest already.